Tag: History
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Greek Pottery: 6th-century eastern Greek faience fish-shaped aryballos (tilapia nilotica)
Here’s a 6th-century eastern Greek oil flask shaped like a fish—allegedly a tilapia nilotica.
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Greek Pottery: 6th-Century Hedgehog Oil Flask
A cute lil hedgehog oil flask at the Met from the eastern Mediterranean.
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Greek Pottery: A Hare-Shaped Oil Flask (Aryballos) from Corinth, c. 625 BCE
A bunny-shaped oil flask (guess where the oil came out? … lol)
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Greek Pottery: Stylized Octopus on a Mycenaean Stirrup Jar at the Getty!
A highly stylized octopus on a Mycenaean stirrup jar at the Getty.
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Greek Pottery: Another Fish Platter from Paestum
Another 4th-Century fish platter from Paestum. (With a happy octopus!)
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Greek Pottery: 7th-Century Corinthian Aryballos with a Minoan-esque Octopus
A Seventh-Century Aryballos from Corinth with an octopus in the Minoan tradition.
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Greek Pottery: Red-Figure Fish Platter, with Fish, Shrimp, Shells, and Two Octopi!
A Fourth-Century Fish Plate from Paestum (Southern Italy) in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Sports and Religion, in Iran and in General: comments on comments made in a recent BBC show on the Protests in Iran
Two thought-provoking comments from an episode of BBC’s “Heart and Soul” on the protests in Iran: girls’ sports and religion from a historian’s perspective.
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A Couple Birds from Archaic Cyprus!
Two birds from archaic Cyprus, one possibly a hornbill-like bird(?), on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Special Series: Reintegrating with Nature
An introduction to the series on reintegrating with nature as individuals and as a species, as well as how we got to this point of removal from the natural worlds to which we belong.
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Alito’s “Ordered Liberty,” or, the masks donned by fascists
Historical inquiry is no different from scientific inquiry. I’m an ancient historian saying this, and one particularly fond of the man who first applied the emergent principles of scientific inquiry (those still used to this day in so-called ‘Western’ science) to the study of our species and specifically to a scientific inquiry into the causes…
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